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IBM FLRT evolved to its present form in part because the development team listened to what FLRT users wanted. Then: A little history In 2006, IBM FLRT (pronounced “flirt”), the Fix Level Recommendations
Tool, began providing fix level and cross-product compatibility
recommendations for IBM Power servers for system firmware, HMC, AIX,
VIOS and a few High Performance Computing (HPC) products. Input of
product levels at FLRT's web-based interface produced a recommendations
report. The new FLRT team thought Power Systems... [More]

For many years, the IBM eClient Support Tools team in Austin, Texas,
has been working hand-in-hand with IBM Linux Technology Center teams in
both the United States and Brazil to provide a web site that contains a
set of tools for users running Linux on IBM Systems with POWER-based
technology. The Service and productivity tools for POWER Linux users site began by providing several diagnostic tools, often called RAS
tools (Reliability, Availability, Scalability), for supported Linux
distributions on IBM Power Systems. Originally, the... [More]

Author: Kathy Nichols , Web Content Architect, eClient Support:
Electronic Tools Team, Austin, Texas. Long-time technical writer and
support content specialist, Kathy was on the original AIX Support Tools
Team (1994-1996) and on the expanded POWER Tools Team from 2002 to the
present. Charter member of the FLRT team. A movie of her life would be
called “Knit. Write. Cook”. Twitter: @kakinikole, Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/kakinikole Electronic Tools and Support
Center teams give AIX users tools they can use In... [More]

In addition to the helps for using the Fix Level Recommendation Tool
(FLRT) that you can find on the FLRT web site, you can now get help in a
new video. This YouTube video demonstrates the basics of using FLRT and
also shows how to use new features, such as getting a report for
multiple LPARs and using a saved inventory file to populate the fields
on the FLRT input page. If you haven't used the latest FLRT yet, visit the site and check it out: Fix Level Recommendation Tool And follow @IBM_FLRT for news of FLRT updates and... [More]

The FLRT team continues to make improvements! While development is progressing nicely for the next FLRT release, the FLRT content team has been enhancing the "FLRT resources" and other helpful content for our clients. New help for scripting With the advent of multiple LPAR support and the ability to save an inventory file to upload back to FLRT, we wanted to improve the scripting capability for those who want to automate FLRT reporting. The help has been updated to include two new sample scripts, one that includes code to gather... [More]